History movies

The Black Pimpernel (2007)

Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Genres: Drama | History | Romance | Thriller
Countries: Denmark | Mexico | Sweden
Actors: Michael Nyqvist | Kate del Castillo | Lumi Cavazos | Carsten Norgaard | Daniel Giménez Cacho | Patrick Bergin | Cristián Campos | Claire Ross-Brown | Lisa Werlinder
Directors: Åsa Faringer
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The story about Swedish ambassador in Chile - Harald Edelstam - and his heroic actions to protect the innocent people from the execution during and after the military coup on September 11th 1973. We travel with Edelstam during the terrible moments just after the coup and follows his never-ending fight for human rights, law and order. What drove him? And what price did he end up paying for his total commitment? Haunted by his own demons the we experiences on close hand how a womanizer desperately searches to find love again, a task only doable, if he can fight his own past and redeem himself. After saving hundreds - maybe even thousands - he is challenged once more, this time to save his newfound love from the death penalty issued by the regime. Another impossible task and a desperate chase against time. Based on a true story about a man, that did, what all of us only dreams of.

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Glory (1989)

Friday, February 8th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | History | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Matthew Broderick | Denzel Washington | Cary Elwes | Morgan Freeman | Jihmi Kennedy | Andre Braugher | John Finn | Donovan Leitch | JD Cullum | Alan North | Bob Gunton | Cliff De Young | Christian Baskous | RonReaco Lee | Jay O. Sanders
Directors: Edward Zwick
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Based on the letters of Colonel Robert G. Shaw. Shaw was an officer in the Federal Army during the American Civil War who volunteered to lead the first company of black soldiers. Shaw was forced to deal with the prejudices of both the enemy (who had orders to kill commanding officers of blacks), and of his own fellow officers.

Troy (2004)

Friday, January 18th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | History | Romance
Countries: Malta | UK | USA
Actors: Julian Glover | Brian Cox | Nathan Jones | Adoni Maropis | Jacob Smith | Brad Pitt | John Shrapnel | Brendan Gleeson | Diane Kruger | Eric Bana | Orlando Bloom | Siri Svegler | Lucie Barat | Ken Bones | Manuel Cauchi
Directors: Wolfgang Petersen
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It is the year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age. Two emerging nations begin to clash after Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was taken by the Trojans, he asks his brother Agamemnom to help him get her back. Agamemnon sees this as an opportunity for power. So they set off with 1,000 ships holding 50,000 Greeks to Troy. With the help of Achilles, the Greeks are able to fight the never before defeated Trojans. But they come to a stop by Hector, Prince of Troy. The whole movie shows their battle struggles, and the foreshadowing of fate in this remake by Wolfgang Petersen of Homer’s “The Iliad.”

The Alamo (2004)

Friday, January 18th, 2008
Genres: Drama | History | War | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Craig Erickson | Dennis Quaid | Billy Bob Thornton | Jason Patric | Patrick Wilson | Emilio Echevarría | Jordi Mollà | Leon Rippy | Tom Davidson | Marc Blucas | Robert Prentiss | Kevin Page | Joe Stevens | Stephen Bruton | Laura Clifton | Ricardo Chavira
Directors: John Lee Hancock
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Historical drama detailing the 1835-36 Texas revolution before, during, and after the famous siege of the Alamo (February 23-March 6, 1836) where 183 Texans (American-born Texans) and Tejanos (Mexican-born Texans) commanded by Colonel Travis, along with Davey Crockett and Jim Bowie, were besieged in an abandoned mission outside San Antonio by a Mexican army of nearly 2,000 men under the personal command of the dictator of Mexico, General Santa Anna, as well as detailing the Battle of San Jacinto (April 21, 1836) where General Sam Houston’s rag-tag army of Texans took on and defeated Santa Anna’s army which led to the indepedence of Texas.

Black Hawk Down (2001)

Friday, January 18th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | History | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Josh Hartnett | Ewan McGregor | Jason Isaacs | Tom Sizemore | Eric Bana | Sam Shepard | Ewen Bremner | Tom Hardy | Ron Eldard | Charlie Hofheimer | Hugh Dancy | Tom Guiry | Brian Van Holt | Steven Ford
Directors: Ridley Scott
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Action/war drama based on the best-selling book detailing a near-disastrous mission in Somalia on October 3, 1993 where nearly 100 U.S. Army Rangers, commanded by Capt. Mike Steele, were dropped by helicopter deep into the capital city of Mogadishu to capture two top lieutenants of a Somali warlord which lead to a large and drawn-out firefight between the Rangers and hundreds of Somali gunmen which led to the destruction of two U.S. Black Hawk helicopters in Mogadishu, and the heroic efforts by various Rangers to get to them, centering on Sgt. Eversmann, commanding one Ranger unit named Chalk Four, leading Rangers to the first black hawk crash site, to Warrant Officer Durant who was only survivor of the second black hawk crash site and whom was captured, to Col. McKnight who leads a rescue convoy for the Rangers only to get lost within the hostile city, to Sgt. Sanderson desperately trying to get to the first crash site, to Staff Sgt. Yurek who leads two fellow Rangers, Nelson and Twombly to meet with up their squad, Chalk Four, at the first crash site, to many others involved who where either killed or survived.

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)

Friday, January 18th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | History | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Russell Crowe | Paul Bettany | James D'Arcy | Edward Woodall | Chris Larkin | Max Pirkis | Jack Randall | Max Benitz | Lee Ingleby | Richard Pates | Robert Pugh | Richard McCabe | Ian Mercer | Tony Dolan | David Threlfall
Directors: Peter Weir
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During the Napoleonic Wars, a British frigate, HMS Surprise, and a much larger French warship, the Acheron, with greater fire power, stalk each other off of the coast of South America. Russell Crowe brings great intensity to the role of Captain Jack Aubrey. Lucky Jack, as he is referred to by his crew, is well regarded by his men, who trust him implicitly, even after the first devastating battle and an apparent personal vendetta against the French captain. While the naval battle sequences are quite fantastic, the film is successful because director Weir chose to build the story to get to know the men who are locked aboard the tight quarters of a small ship and how they interact everyday. The officers and the mates are well-known by the time the final battle comes. Paul Bettany offers a strong performance as the surgeon and naturalist who balances the violence of his chosen life with the quiet demeanor of the scientist. He is the captain’s friend and confidant, the two frequently playing violin and cello duets together. The horrors of the injuries from the war are frequently implied, but vividly depicted in the reactions of the characters.

Amistad (1997)

Sunday, December 16th, 2007
Genres: Drama | History | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Morgan Freeman | Nigel Hawthorne | Anthony Hopkins | Djimon Hounsou | Matthew McConaughey | David Paymer | Pete Postlethwaite | Stellan Skarsgård | Razaaq Adoti | Abu Bakaar Fofanah | Anna Paquin | Tomas Milian | Chiwetel Ejiofor | Derrick N. Ashong | Geno Silva
Directors: Steven Spielberg
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AMISTAD is about a 1839 mutiny onboard a slave ship that is traveling towards the Northeast Coast of America. Much of the story involves a court-room drama about the slave who led the revolt.

Marie Antoinette (2006)

Friday, November 9th, 2007
Genres: Biography | Drama | History
Countries: France | Japan | USA
Actors: Kirsten Dunst | Jason Schwartzman | Judy Davis | Rip Torn | Rose Byrne | Asia Argento | Molly Shannon | Shirley Henderson | Danny Huston | Marianne Faithfull | Mary Nighy | Sebastian Armesto | Jamie Dornan | Aurore Clément | Guillaume Gallienne
Directors: Sofia Coppola
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Based on Antonia Fraser’s book about the ill-fated Archduchess of Austria and later Queen of France, ‘Marie Antoinette’ tells the story of the most misunderstood and abused woman in history, from her birth in Imperial Austria to her later life in France.

Look, Up in the Sky: The Amazing Story of Superman (2006)

Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Genres: Documentary | History
Countries: USA
Actors: Forrest J Ackerman | Gilbert Adler | Stephan Bender | Marlon Brando | Dean Cain | Mike Carlin | Gerard Christopher | Jackie Cooper | Dan Didio | Richard Donner | Michael Dougherty | Stephen Fishler | Alfred Gough | Gary H. Grossman | Mark Hamill
Directors: Kevin Burns
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In 1938, two aspiring comic strip talents, Jerry Siegal and Joe Shuster, published a character that would create a new genre of fantasy, Superman, the first superhero. This film explores the creation of the character and his subsequent evolution over the decades through various media. With various interviews of noted creative luminaries, the film shows how the character has adapted to the times and bounced back from times when he felt irrelevant to always regain his prominence as one of the great heroes of popular culture.

Catch a Fire (2006)

Friday, October 19th, 2007
Genres: Drama | History | Thriller
Countries: France | South Africa | UK | USA
Actors: Tim Robbins | Derek Luke | Bonnie Mbuli | Mncedisi Shabangu | Tumisho Masha | Sithembiso Khumalo | Terry Pheto | Michele Burgers | Mpho Lovinga | Mxo | Jessica Anstey | Charlotte Savage | Nomhlé Nkyonyeni | Michael Mabizela | Eduan van Jaarsveldt
Directors: Phillip Noyce
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A political thriller: the real-life story of a South African hero’s journey to freedom. In the country’s turbulent and divided times in the 1980s, Patrick Chamusso is an oil refinery foreman and soccer coach who is apolitical - until he and his wife Precious are jailed. Patrick is stunned into action against the country’s oppressive reigning system, even as police Colonel Nic Vos further insinuates himself into the Chamussos’ lives.